TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessment of skipping breakfast at home among adolescent school students in Badia Region, Jordan
AU - Masalha, Amani
AU - ALBashtawy, Mohammad S.
AU - Alshloul, Mohammad N.
AU - Baker, Nisren Abu
AU - Hamadneh, Shereen
AU - Alkhawaldeh, Abdullah
AU - Alyahya, Mohammed S.
AU - Aljezawi, Ma’en
AU - Abdalrahim, Asem
AU - Suliman, Mohammad
AU - Alshloul, Doha M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the administration and Scientific Research and Ethics Committee of the College of Nursing, Al al-Bayt University for their valuable role in facilitating this study, and great thanks to the Directorate of Education of Northeastern Badia officer, headmasters, teachers, and all students for their participation in this study. The author(s) received no financial support for the research.
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PY - 2023/8/29
Y1 - 2023/8/29
N2 - Introduction: Healthy meals play an essential role in the healthy physical and mental development of adolescents. Breakfast at home is associated with improved nutritional choices, and skipping breakfast is detrimental. This study assessed prevalence of skipping breakfast at home among adolescent students in the Badia Region of Jordan, identifying the reasons and characteristics associated with such behavioural choice. Methods: A cross-sectional survey among adolescent students (aged 13-16 years, in 8th-9th grades) from six public schools in Badia Region, Mafraq Governorate, Jordan, was conducted through self-administered questionnaire from February to March 2022. Results: Results showed that 68.1% of 552 student participants regularly skipped breakfast at home (72.4% boys vs. 61.3% girls; p=0.007). Among those who regularly skipped breakfast, three main rationales for this choice were not feeling hungry (5.3%), lack of time (2.7%), and lack of appetite (3.5%). Conclusion: The prevalence of skipping breakfast at home among adolescents in Badia Region was high for various reasons, including lack of time, not feeling hungry, seeking to manage weight, and insufficient knowledge on the importance of healthy breakfast. Therefore, understanding the reasons and factors that contribute towards breakfast skipping may help in solving the problem, underscoring that positive beliefs should be reinforced in schools, with parents encouraging adolescents to eat healthy breakfast.
AB - Introduction: Healthy meals play an essential role in the healthy physical and mental development of adolescents. Breakfast at home is associated with improved nutritional choices, and skipping breakfast is detrimental. This study assessed prevalence of skipping breakfast at home among adolescent students in the Badia Region of Jordan, identifying the reasons and characteristics associated with such behavioural choice. Methods: A cross-sectional survey among adolescent students (aged 13-16 years, in 8th-9th grades) from six public schools in Badia Region, Mafraq Governorate, Jordan, was conducted through self-administered questionnaire from February to March 2022. Results: Results showed that 68.1% of 552 student participants regularly skipped breakfast at home (72.4% boys vs. 61.3% girls; p=0.007). Among those who regularly skipped breakfast, three main rationales for this choice were not feeling hungry (5.3%), lack of time (2.7%), and lack of appetite (3.5%). Conclusion: The prevalence of skipping breakfast at home among adolescents in Badia Region was high for various reasons, including lack of time, not feeling hungry, seeking to manage weight, and insufficient knowledge on the importance of healthy breakfast. Therefore, understanding the reasons and factors that contribute towards breakfast skipping may help in solving the problem, underscoring that positive beliefs should be reinforced in schools, with parents encouraging adolescents to eat healthy breakfast.
KW - Badia region
KW - Jordan
KW - adolescence
KW - breakfast consumption
KW - skipping breakfast
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U2 - 10.31246/mjn-2022-0121
DO - 10.31246/mjn-2022-0121
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85172363700
SN - 1394-035X
VL - 29
SP - 343
EP - 354
JO - Malaysian Journal of Nutrition
JF - Malaysian Journal of Nutrition
IS - 2
ER -